The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

The defense budget is more than a piggy bank for people who want to get busy beating swords into pork barrels.

Real improvement in our schools is not simply a matter of spending more, it is a matter of expecting more.

If the people were to ever find out what we have done, we would be chased down the streets and lynched.

In crucial things, unity. In important things, diversity. In ALL things, generosity.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

The world does not know how to concentrate on working.

A simple journey creates a peaceful life.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

There is more than one sort of prison, Captain, " Chirrut said. "I sense that you carry yours wherever you go.

To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.

I don't keep a journal.

Cannot find the comfort in this world.

The past is gone. I know it sounds cliché, but you're here. Like be in it. And boxing was a really good analogy for me to try and carry that in my everyday life all the time.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped in poisonous jest.